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The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51° S and 51° N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station
Vincent Noel
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Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS/UPS, Observatoire
Midi-Pyrénées, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, Toulouse, France
Hélène Chepfer
LMD/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, École polytechnique, École
Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, 91120 Palaiseau,
France
Marjolaine Chiriaco
LATMOS/IPSL, Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Guyancourt, France
John Yorks
NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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Short summary
From 3 years of observations from the CATS lidar on the International Space Station we document the daily cycle of the vertical distribution of clouds.
This is the first time this is documented over several continents and oceans using finely resolved measurements on a near-global scale from a single instrument.
We show that other instruments observing clouds from space, like CALIPSO, document extremes of the daily cycle over ocean and closer to the average over land.
From 3 years of observations from the CATS lidar on the International Space Station we document...
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